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Subject: Re: Why are we at war with USSR? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 23:35:35 EST
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uicsl!keller    Mar 29 11:09:00 1984

This is a single viewpoint analysis of the rise of the Soviet military state.
There are plenty of contributing factors and perhaps more decisive ones, for
example the confusion after the war, the fall of the czar, and the
ideological orientation of the new government. The question of whether free
trade would help or hurt is indeed an interesting one, and one that
Libertarians might fervently promote on the belief that exposure to
capitalism and its products would quickly undermine the repressive
government. Maybe the only thing we need to drop on the USSR to topple the
government is Sears catalogs. However, we should seriously consider whether
the government could so control imports that only technology useful for
warfare would be allowed.

-Shaun